The Name of God (I): YHWH in the Old Testament
Why was YHWH, the Name revealed to Moses, no longer spoken? An Orthodox study of the Tetragrammaton, the Psalter, and the path to the Jesus Prayer.
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Elder Ephraim of Arizona — The American Period
Elder Ephraim of Arizona: his sanctity, the apparatus built around him, ROCOR, Passias, money, victims, and Orthodox discernment.
Father Seraphim Rose: Repentance, Hagiography, and Discernment
A careful Orthodox reading of Father Seraphim Rose, his biographies, Platina, hagiography, repentance, and discernment.
Rue Daru, Russian Paris and ROCOR: the story of an almost 90-year rupture
The history of the rupture between the Russian Archdiocese of Paris (Rue Daru) and ROCOR: from the Russian exile after 1917 to the reunifications of 2007 and 2019.
What Does “True Orthodoxy” Mean? Four Patristic Criteria for Discernment
What does true Orthodoxy mean? Four patristic criteria for discernment: apostolic continuity, catholicity, holiness, and Eucharistic communion.
Cleopa, the Last Saint of Romania
Saint Cleopa Ilie, glorified in 2025, as a patristically verifiable Romanian Orthodox elder: life, teaching, humility, gifts, and fruits.
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului (II) — His Writings, Teaching, and Philokalic Legacy
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului — Part II: His Writings, Teaching, and Philokalic Legacy “The writings of Elder Basil can and must be regarded as the very first book to which anyone who wishes to practice the Jesus Prayer with…
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului (I) — His Life and Encounter with Saint Paisius Velichkovsky
Saint Basil of Poiana Marului — Part I: His Life and Encounter with Saint Paisius Velichkovsky “When I saw him, I glorified God from my whole soul that He had deemed me worthy, unworthy as I am, to behold so…
Which ROCOR? A Canonical Guide for Orthodox Christians in the United Kingdom
How a believer can recognise a canonical ROCOR parish in the UK — and why not every church calling itself the «Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia» is in communion with the Orthodox Church.
How to Read the Philokalia: The Path of Gradual Initiation the Tradition Recommends
The scene has repeated itself for decades. An Orthodox Christian, searching for spiritual depth, hears about the Philokalia. He buys it — in English, the Palmer-Sherrard-Ware edition in five volumes; in Romanian, the Stăniloae edition in twelve volumes; in Russian,…